561

Corn, seed, 16, 125, 260; a good kind, 52; rel-
ative value of different kinds, 59, 171; in
Illinois, 64; will doves pull up? 78, 84;
broom, 175; experiments with, 175; fodder,
206; cobs to be mixed with hay, 207; a
large crop of, 223; shrinkage of, in drying,
246, 547; deep and shallow culture of,
Cotton, in the Free States, 102; culture of,
165; flax,
346, 567
Cow, garget in, 12, 478, 497; stables, 53;
extra feed to, 75; soiling, 77; bone dust for,
84, 195; a sick, 88; eating litter from ma-
nure heaps, 110; an hour with the milch, 119;
a fat, 131; parsnips for, in certain cases, 165;
that gives too much milk, 174; chewing
bones, 174; leaks her milk, 221; to prevent
from kicking, 260, 373; and ten months'
calf, 266; versus horses, 270; a good, 282;
health of the, 406; to prevent from throw-
ing fences, 427; abortion in,
Courtesies, home,

Family, a pleasant and well-regulated, 173;
a birth in the,

Farm, small and large, 171; hints on buying a,
203, 316; roadsides of the, 237; labor, make
it fashionable, 331; engineering, 374; personal
experience in earning a,
Farmer, natural science for, 34, 72; want of
sociability among, 59; rights of the, 69; the
New England, 89; high school for the, 101;
timely advice to the, 163; and natural his-
tory, 361; and the draft, 427; the Massachu-
setts, 475; encouragement for the,
Farming, is it profitable? 12, 21, 46, 97, 114,
123, 269, 290, 312, 338, 377, 406; contrasts
in, 27; rivalry in, 322; why are so few young
men fond of, 331; A. G. Sheldon's,
Fat, use of, -

February, calendar for,

Feet, educated,

-

Fence, a new, 26; Smith's improved, 186, 243,
257, 312; about à, 314, 351, 422, 533; econ-
omy of a,

295

405

545

336

133

57

152

546

479

Fever, and ague, 392; and dysentery,

462, 496

342

Fireside, winter,

110

Cranberry plants, setting the, 220; culture of
the, 221, 258, 519; vine, worm on,
Crop, feed the, 183; in England, 294; pre-
mium on field, 354; the grass,

Fish, tenacity of life in a, 141; and fish breed-

222

ing,

457

Flannel for summer and winter,

428

373

Crow, the, and robin, 269; the,

302

Curculio, remedy for, 265; the,

332

D

Fodder and manure, relation of,

546

Food, qualities and changes in,

563

Forests, rotation in the,

299

-

343

Daughters, marriage of,

439

French, Henry F., letter from,

323

Day, John, farm of, 301; an autumnal,

560

Frog, trade in the,

388

December, thoughts suggested by,

Desert, pillars of sand in the,

Dog, wood, 293; power, 334; versus wool,
Draining, 23, 76; new book on, 131; will it
pay? 205; clay lands, 220, 256; how deep,
389, 508, 526; with stones and pipes,

537
496
465

541

Dress, extravagance in,

64

Frost, in the window, 68; and the weather,
Fruit, culture of, in pots, 118; garden, 233;
and flowers, 253; ringing for, 258; hints
about, 326; wafers, for dessert, 391; how to
stamp or figure when growing, 433; explana-
tion of terms used in describing, 448, 449;
gatherer, 467; ripening of, 499; as a medi-
cine, 515; thinning of, 531; analysis of, -
Fuel,

Garden, the vegetable, 216; kitchen, 242; sur-
face of the, 256; a walk in my, 293, 360;
plan of, 433; insects in the, 436; D. W.
Lincoln's, 444; a pattern, 459; flower, in
November,

490

561

225

G

565

our, -

367

Gas from coal,

548

492

536

Goats, about keeping,

135, 146, 186, 244, 261

Gooseberry, the,

266

Education, agricultural, 262; for sons, 279, 315;
advantages of, 397; and thinking, 442; re-
laxation in,

-

Grape, native, how to protect, 37; culture of,
51, 198, 417; vine, grafting the, 70,; vines,
pruning, 164; vine, barren, 290; open-air,
culture of the, 336; house for the, 399; how

Lucerne, about,

15

251

Horse, staggers in, 12; fine, 23; glanders in,
26; bots in, 81; founder in, 102; hair of
the, 147; number of, in Vermont, 184; how
to cure heaves in the, 195; cure of ringbone
on the, 207, 244; with a cough, 242; worms
in the, 261; a thorough-bred, 273; Morrill
Draco, 285; to cure scratches in, 290; crib-
bing of the, 317; city, a look at the, 374 ; and
a hat, 435; kicking, to cure, 517; to cure a
breachy, 522; feet, treatment of, 532; a pull-
ing-back,

House, smoke, a cheap and good, 478; warm-
ing and ventilating a,

533, 553

525

65, 392
117, 395
205, 308
261

Ice, a trot on the, 250; berg, bursting of an,
259; house, a cheap, 338; making, by ma-
chinery,

Luxuries, ancient and modern,

M

Machine, Union mowing, 305; mowing, on
small farms, 319; Manny's mowing, 372;
trial of mowing, 380, 390, 418, 456; bread
and butter,

242

542

429
Maine, correspondence from, 51; geology of, 203, 300
Mangold and carrots,
Man, a contented, 360; great, tools he works
with, 451; advice to young,
Manure, to be used in autumn or winter, 79,
124, 164; weight of, 178; concentrated, 204,
317, 340; exact statements about, wanted,
206; from poultry, 201, 244; marine, 221;
the best, 256; loss of, 370, 377; summer,
387, 397, 515; how to make, 414, 528; col-
lection and preparation of, 426; green, 461;
surface application of, 464, 527; supply of,
541; spreading in autumn, 543; and fodder,
relations of,

March, thoughts suggested by,
Mares, scarcity of pure Arabian,

546

105

307

Market, reports of, 82; cattle, for January,
104; for February, 152; for March, 200; for
April, 248; for May, 296; for June, 344; for
July, 392; for August, 440; for September,
488; for October, 511, 536; New York horse, 355..
Marketing, skill in,

497

383.

Iron, new method of melting, 178; clad ves-

May, thoughts of the month,

201

Meadows, Sudbury, 69; top-dressing of, in au-

556.

Meat, scientific mode of boiling,

423

335

283

472

546

as seed, 164; for sheep, 175; for horses, 400;

Power, horse,

113

555

405
367
562

407

489

420
369
92

Plant, house, 63, 74; climbing, 188; planting,
care in, 268; gigantic pitcher, 542; winter
care of tender,

Pleuro-pneumonia,

58, 93, 154, 520

Plow, is there any substitute for, 20; American,
70; when shall we? 177; plowing bee, 244;
Sutter's gang, 272; and plowing, 286; plow-
ing, benefits of autumn,

418, 532

519

Plum, the royal Hative, 209; tree, black knot
on, 412, 415, 437; growing,
Pork, how to sell fresh, 91; how to cure, 459, 566
Post, to prevent being thrown by frost, 38; how

519

to set a,
165, 469
Potato, tar on the, 127; seed, 127; on muck
land, 184; new seedling, 200; running out
of the, 213; sweet, culture of the, 237, 266;
a novel mode of planting, 240; about the,
251; experiments with the, 275; cooking the,
487; rot in the, 490; digging the,
Poultry, profit of, 22, 189, 207, 261, 471; sick,
22; about, 39; nests of hens, 90; the
Brahma, 145; experiments with, 150; tapes
in, 168; Leghorn, 195, 233, 261; fever, de-
cline of, 218; chickens, summer, 277; pure
blood, 282, 310; house for, 341; house and
yard for, 421, 518; vermin on, 450; keeping
on a large scale, 479; hens, eating their eggs,
507; dung of,

557

making, 155, 160; from beets, 162, 185, 194;
Northern, -
Sunlight, influence of,

Swine, water for fattening, 10, 125; working,
31, 254; a wooden sow, 44; how to raise, 52;
fine, 115, 124, 125, 207; unmannerly, 112;
and salt, 149; white Chester County, 210;
cheap summer feed for, 283; how we caught
a, 282; ashes for, 545; cure for thumps in,
Sympathy,

470

560

67

470

534

413

121

349

513

377

Season, and crops, 58, 82, 314, 394, 415, 480,
496; hints for the, 102; in Vermont, 329; in
Illinois, 401; being in,
Seed, pure, 43; spring sown grass, 77; too
much, 85; foul, 119; exchange of, 136; soak-
ing the, 183; how it germinates, 202; quan-
tity and quality of, 228; seeding with fowl
meadow, 261, 271, 533; grass, for wet land,
479; of fruit, how to manage,

Shad, habits of the,

Shade, poverty of,

Shakers, a day with the,

Sheep, rye for, 35; fat, 64, 74; skins, to dress
with wool on, 97; sales from, 101; questions
about, 112; barns and feeding racks, plans of,
131, 481; turnips for, 150; oats for, 175;
sales of, 214; barley for, 282; and lambs, and
twin lambs, 329; three Spanish merinos, 372;
and wool, 463; breeding of, 477; about,
Shingles, about, 26; whitewashing the,

Thistle, money paid for the, 319; Canada, legis-

12

Tan bark, as a manure,

335

Taste, good,

300

lation about,

480

Society, Essex County, 22, 42, 78, 525; United
States Agricultural, 59; Vermont State, 95,
202; Massachusetts Horticultural, 95, 534;
Hingham Agricultural, 95, 184; Franklin
County, 95; Hampshire, 95; Berkshire, 95;
American Pomological, 100, 356; American,
101; Worcester, North, 120; Rutland County,
Vt., 120; Caledonia County, Vt., 131; Mid-
dlesex, 140, 493; Hampshire, Franklin, and
Hampden, 190; Rhode Island, 287; New
York State, 307; Worcester, 478; Middle-
sex South, 504; Brooklyn, N. Y., Horticul-
tural, 504; State bounty to agricultural, 519, 544
Soil, temperature of the, 466; materials com-
posing the,

Trees, to keep rabbits from in winter, 11; about,
54, 73; apple, injured, 100; scraping, 149,
310; fruit, and snow, 155; freak of a dwarf
pear, 189; proper time to prune fruit, 217,
245; how the Chinese make dwarf, 227; fruit,
look out for the, 234, 245; and mice, 239, 255,
313, 506; pear, and hens, 260; plum, 293,
360; pear, the Endicott, 311; cutting back
newly transplanted, 369; and small birds,
412; forest, of America, 453; apple, bearing
the odd years, 518; the Linden, 545; upright, 547
Trout factory in Connecticut,
454